A Free Low-Budget Vegetarian Cookbook

Yesterday, after once again trying to figure out how to make my grocery budget stretch two week feeding six people, I realized I was going to have to do some more beans and rice meals for the family. 

Now, I LOVE beans and rice, and lots of veggies. I eat only small amounts of poultry, and the rest of my diet is vegetarian. But so far I haven’t been real successful in finding healthy, inexpensive vegetarian meals that my family likes, much less loves. (Okay, cheese pizza doesn’t count…) 

So once again, yesterday I started hunting around for new recipes to try on them.  In doing so I ran across this wonderful low-budget vegetarian cookbook ebook – that’s amazingly FREE (wow!) and loaded with information (90 pages of it!). 

It’s written for those who are fairly new to eating vegetarian, and who are on a low budget.  I’m not new to cooking and eating vegetarian, but this little cookbook takes a new approach than most I’ve seen or have on my shelf:  

 - It shares how to make beans more digestible;

-  it teaches the “patterns” of cooking grains and bean dishes and the flavor combinations so you can easily mix and match your own; and

- it shares where to look for the ingredients at the best price.

I spent all my free time in the last 24 hours reading and studying this little book. And spent much longer than normal at the grocery story today trying to figure out the prices for the staple ingredients I don’t have on hand, so I can start to budget them into my grocery budget.

If you are looking at a vegetarian diet or are a vegetarian looking for more recipes, I highly recommend downloading a copy and reading the first section before even looking at the recipes.